The TVAD Research Group, based in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, researches relationships between text, narrative and image. We publish books, journal articles, host a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, Writing Visual Culture (previously Working Papers on Design) and host events including international conferences.

Friday, 2 October 2015

Dr Daniel Huppatz is TVAD Visiting Researcher for 2015-16

Dr
Daniel Huppatz will join us as TVAD Visiting Researcher for 2015-16. Dr Huppatz is a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include mapping histories
of modern Asian design, Australian design, and histories of interior design and
architecture. As well as presenting papers at numerous academic conferences, Dr
Huppatz has been widely published in journals including Design Issues, Journal
of Design History and Design and Culture. His other interventions
include editing Design: Critical and Primary Sources
(Bloomsbury, 2016), a collection of 75 essential texts on design from the
mid-19th century to the present day, covering key thinkers, movements and
issues for design, and co-editing Unbounded: On the Interior and Interiority
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015). Huppatz is a co-founder of the Design
History Australia Research Network, DHARN.
He is currently working on a book titled Modern Asian Design.

Dr Huppatz will be working with researchers both within and
beyond TVAD, and other staff and students in the School of Creative Arts and
the School of Humanities. His work with us will cover topics including interior
design and global design history to modern Asian design. These topics will be
examined through sessions including: